strange as it seems, there's been a run of crazy dreams

[tempestsarekind]

Lately I've been having this recurring dream where I'm trying to teach some kid about Shakespeare and rhetoric (I don't know why, but this goes on for a couple of weeks, in the dream, so maybe it's a tutorial or something), and then, in reaction, he goes off and drowns himself. Or tries to, anyway--sometimes he succeeds, but other times we manage

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[cschells]

Ack!
I had a dream the other night that I let our 6 year old drive the car (just a little) because I was really, really tired and she wouldn't get out of the driver's seat and I didn't want to fight with her. And of course the first thing she did was run a stop sign and we got pulled over. It was a really excruciating Bad Mommy dream, and I was so glad to wake up!
I'd like to think that these kinds of dreams indicate that we are exercising a very responsible amount of conscientiousness towards whatever is provoking them...

[tempestsarekind]

Oh dear! But at least nothing worse than getting pulled over happened in the dream--whenever I have dreams in which really bad/dangerous situations occur, I'm out of sorts for a good chunk of the day, as though I'm not fully sure they didn't happen.

I think this dream stems from the fact that I've been thinking lately about whether I want rhetoric to be a major part of my project, and whether I can say anything remotely interesting about it. This is, apparently, my subconscious' smart-aleck answer. :) Though during one of these dreams, interestingly, the student told me that studying Shakespeare so closely was "sucking all of the fun out of it"...